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sprummer en · NOUN

Etymology

Blend of spring + summer.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The transition period between spring and summer: late spring.
    • Revising and reassigning the antipodean seasons, he divides spring into a two-month “sprinter” (August–September) and two-month “sprummer” (October–November). 2013, John Charles Ryan, Toward a phen (omen) ology of the seasons: The emergence of the Indigenous Weather Knowledge Project (IWKP):
    • Spring and summer chinook ("sprummer" chinook to the National Marine Fisheries Service) hang on at critically low levels that represent irretrievable loss of invaluable genetic diversity. 1991, Northwest Energy News:
    • SPRUMMER is the Tavistock Repertory Company's season between April and July at the TOWER THEATRE 1963, Encore - Issues 41-52, page 47:
    • So, while the changes are different from those on the coast, sprinter with its early bulbs and sprummer with the local waratah are useful times to reflect on seasonal changes in the Blue Mountains. 2014, Timothy Entwisle, Sprinter and Sprummer: Australia's Changing Seasons, page 83:

Coordinates

sprinter